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Online Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Choose from dictionaries, encyclopedias and selected web pages. Librarians are available to suggest research strategies.
Denotes Resources with Full-Text
Dictionaries
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
Provides the content of the dictionary.
Type: Full-text
New Oxford American Dictionary
Provides over 250,000 definitions.
Type: Full-text
Oxford Bilingual Dictionaries
Includes English bilingual dictionaries for Spanish, French, German, Italian, Irish, Welsh and Latin.
Type: Full-text
Oxford English Dictionary
Provides the pronunciation, meaning and history for over 500,000 words in the English language.
Type: Full-text
Encyclopedias
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year.
Type: Full-text
Encyclopaedia Judaica
The 22 volume encyclopedia features thousands of articles pertaining to Jewish culture and is fully searchable online.
Type: Full-text
Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society
Covers the relationship between business organizations and society, culture and the environment.
Type: Full-text
Encyclopedia of Management
Covers over 300 topcis related to management theories including planning, benchmarking, logistics, performance measurement and much more.
Type: Full-text
Encyclopedia of Mental Health
Provides detailed information on mental disorders and conditions.
Type: Full-text
Encyclopedia of Religion
The encyclopedia offers over 3000 entries from a cross-cultural perspective.
Type: Full-text
Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Type: Full-text
Oxford Reference Collection
Provides the full-text content of over 100 subject-specific encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Type: Full-text
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Provides scholarly articles on important philosophical topics.
Type: Full-text
Selected Web Pages
Bartleby.Com
Provides full-text access to many of Bartleby's famous literary reference works including Roget's Thesaurus, Bartlett's Quotations, The Harvard Classics and much more.
Type: Web Page
Your Dictionary.com
The benefits of access to word definitions in several languages outweigh the inconveniences of the many advertisements on the site.
Type: Web Page
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